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Wood Avens
Geum urbanum
Geum urbanum, also known as wood avens, herb Bennet, colewort and St. Benedict's herb (Latin herba benedicta), is a perennial plant in the rose family (Rosaceae), which grows in shady places (such as woodland edges and near hedgerows) in Europe and the Middle East.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.385
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.146
Herbarius
1485 · p.146
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.143
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.108
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.155
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.418
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.87
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.139
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.656
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.104
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.120
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Geum urbanum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55891.